Letter: Ellen Brown: Commentary piece sheds light on Sinclair agenda

Saturday

Apr 14, 2018 at 3:00 PM

Bravo to Adam Bagni for his thoughtful April 8 Commentary piece ("Sinclair messes with R.I landmark"), which described the formerly covert and now widely publicized campaign being waged on the First Amendment by the ultra-right Sinclair Broadcasting. Until the first time I was subjected to Boris Epshteyn's insidious "Bottom Line with Boris" segments, which are mandated for all Sinclair stations, I was a viewer of WJAR Channel 10 news. But no more. I have absolutely no trust in the validity of anything I hear from any of its local staff.

But it doesn't end with these fallacious segments. Following “Meet the Press,” a real and respected program from NBC on Sunday mornings, the station now airs “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson,” another Sinclair employee who is never identified as such. That program is as unbalanced and ultra-right as anything one could imagine on Fox News.

Ellen Brown

Providence

The writer has been a journalist for more than 40 years.

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